If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Westshore Terminals Investment Corp is 0.76, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Westshore Terminals Investment was 1.12. The lowest was 0.31. And the median was 0.48.
During the past 12 months, Westshore Terminals Investment's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 16.70% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 29.80% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 19.20% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -0.70% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Westshore Terminals Investment was 29.80% per year. The lowest was -21.40% per year. And the median was 1.10% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Westshore Terminals Investment Dividend Yield % Historical Data
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Westshore Terminals Investment's Dividend Yield %
For the Marine Shipping subindustry, Westshore Terminals Investment's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Westshore Terminals Investment's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Transportation Industry
For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Westshore Terminals Investment's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Westshore Terminals Investment's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Westshore Terminals Investment Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
CAD 0.375000
2024-03-27
2024-03-31
2024-04-15
Cash Dividend
quarterly
CAD:EUR 0.679182
CAD 0.350000
2023-12-28
2023-12-31
2024-01-15
Cash Dividend
quarterly
CAD:EUR 0.692078
CAD 0.350000
2023-09-28
2023-09-30
2023-10-15
Cash Dividend
quarterly
CAD:EUR 0.689452
CAD 0.350000
2023-06-29
2023-06-30
2023-07-15
Cash Dividend
quarterly
CAD:EUR 0.697551
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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Westshore Terminals Investment (FRA:3I7) Business Description
Westshore Terminals Investment Corporation is a Canada-based company, which owns the Westshore Terminals Limited Partnership. The company operates a coal storage and loading terminal at Roberts Bank, British Columbia, and revenue is derived from rates charged for loading coal onto seagoing vessels. The company services coal from mines in British Columbia, Alberta, and the northwestern United States. The coal is delivered to the terminal in unit trains and then unloaded and transferred onto a ship. It is then shipped to multiple countries across the world, with the majority headed to Japan, Korea and China.
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